The People’s Court of District 1 in HCM City has ruled that painter Lê Phong Linh (pen name Lê Linh) is to be the only author of popular comic series Thần Đồng Đất Việt (Vietnamese Land’s Prodigy).

For most Hanoians, cốm (green sticky rice) is one of the capital’s most important symbols of gastronomy and elegance, and so is bánh cốm (sweet cake made of green sticky rice and green beans).

Vice President Đặng Thị Ngọc Thịnh yesterday received nearly 200 delegates from 46 countries and territories, who are participating in the ongoing 4th Conference on Advertising Vietnamese Literature, at the President Palace in Hà Nội.

Việt Nam is preparing a contingency of 268 military engineers to be sent to war-torn South Sudan as the next step of its commitment to UN peacekeeping efforts, deputy defence minister Nguyễn Chí Vịnh said.

The Vietnamese Government has issued a series of conditions required to set up a foreign-invested vocational training institution in Việt Nam, expected to take effect from March 20.

HCM City will host the Carom Billiard 3-Cushion World Cup on May 16-28.

The first programme of a special art project to introduce classical music to young people will begin next week in HCM City. 

Literature transformed what was to be a short meeting to schedule a tour of Kontum into a four-hour conversation. Once we found out we shared a love for books, myself and Huyh the operator of a travel company in the central highlands, spent hours citing and quoting authors.

With 172 recognised relics and 97 heritage sites, HCM City boasts a wealth of culture. The city plans to spend millions of dollars preserving and promoting its rich history over the next few years, San Hà reports.

The upcoming 40th anniversary of the brief but devastating border clash between China and Việt Nam in 1979 offers a chance to reflect on history and draw lessons to consolidate bilateral ties, not to deepen hatred.